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WORLD NEWS ON JAN. 22ND, 2016
Friday, January 22, 2016
VietPress USA (Jan. 22nd 2016): World News on Jan. 22nd, 2016:
Toronto man found not guilty in Twitter harassment trial widely viewed as a Canadian first (nationalpost.com)
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'We will recover our land from the invaders': ISIS issues chilling threat to launch terror attacks in Spain to reimpose Muslim rule after 500 years (dailymail.co.uk)
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Migration crisis can destroy Europe, says French Prime Minister Manuel Valls | Europe | News (independent.co.uk)
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Germany arrests suspected Syrian jihadi for 'war crime' | German authorities have arrested a 24-year-old Syrian national near the southwestern German city of Stuttgart. Suliman A.-S. is accused of being involved in the kidnapping of a UN peacekeeper in Syria in 2013. (dw.com)
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Bill Gates has told the the BBC that the United States "should set a better example" by taking in more refugees. Speaking to the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Gates said his home country "had the capacity" to follow the examples of Germany and Sweden, who were "to be congratulated". (bbc.com)
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HIV infections in Russia have reached record levels, with the number of people registered as HIV-positive passing the one million mark. (news.com.au)
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Australia's largest solar plants are open for business | will generate enough power to serve more than 50,000 homes. The two plants cover more than 375 hectares (927 acres) in total, making them the largest in Australia and potentially the Southern Hemisphere. (mashable.com)
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More European nations are barring the door to migrants - A host of European nations are taking new steps to curb migrant arrivals amid rising security concerns.(washingtonpost.com)
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The US Will Cede Control of the Internet for the 1st Time - Globalization has made it impossible for the US to maintain its oversight of internet governance organization ICANN.(motherboard.vice.com)
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Two Ottawa colleges open campuses in Saudi Arabia which deny female enrollment despite continued faculty protest. (cbc.ca)
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German police have said they do not have enough resources to carry out interior minister Thomas de Maizière’s plan to extend border controls as long as the refugee crisis continues. (theguardian.com)
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A Danish city has ordered pork to be mandatory on municipal menus, including for schools and daycare centers, with politicians insisting the move is necessary for preserving the country's food traditions and is not an attack on Muslim (bigstory.ap.org)
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Alexander Litvinenko accused Vladimir Putin of being a paedophile four months before he was poisoned (independent.co.uk)
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Pope Francis opens foot-washing rite to women in gesture of inclusion - In a change that quickly set the Catholic world buzzing, Pope Francis allowed priests to wash women's feet & anyone else in the community on Holy Thursday & not just men, as church law previously decreed. (washingtonpost.com)
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